Fairlight CMI Song List

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Table of Songs featuring EDP Wasp

Artist	Song	Year	Notes	Reference	Media URL
Afrika Bambaataa	Planet Rock	1982	Orchestral stab; ORCH5 (from 15secs). Arthur Baker, producer: 'Strangely enough there was also a Fairlight there. You can probably do what the Fairlight did on a $1,000 computer now. Back then the Fairlight was probably worth over $100,000 or more. It was taking up a lot of space, but it had a few sounds in it, one being this sort of explosion sound, which we used in the break, and the orchestra, the infamous orchestra.'	Arthur Baker interview	YouTube
Aha	Take On Me		Tony Mansfield used the Fairlight on the production and sampled parts from the original demo.	Interview with band & producer	YouTube
Art Of Noise	Close to the Edit	1983	Orchestral stab; ORCH5	[ Reference]	[ YouTube]
Art Of Noise	Moments in Love		Lead melody. The familiar breathy sample of the mid-80s	[ Reference]	[ YouTube]
Brad Fidel	Terminator's theme		Pitched down, Fidel uses Brassfall for the ominous dark sound accompanying James Cameron's The Terminator in the 1984 original.	[ Reference]	[ YouTube]
Chick Corea	Touchstone	1982	Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes], Synthesizer [Yamaha Gs-1, Minimoog, Ob-xa] – Chick Corea Album: Touchstone. Fusion / Latin Jazz	Reference	YouTube"
Depeche Mode (Vince Clarke)		1984	x2 for touring, and then in the studio.	Reference	[ YouTube]
Jan Hammer	Crockett's Theme		Lead melody & pads. (ARR1 lead) Layered vocal patch with pluck; pad sounds from Fairlight according to the reference video:	YouTube	YouTube
Jan Hammer	Miami Vice Theme		Reference	[ YouTube]
Jean-Michel Jarre	Magnetic Fields & ZooLook	1981	The Fairlight arrived in 1981 just in time for Magnetic Fields	Music Technology (1988)	[ YouTube]
Kate Bush	Running Up That Hill	1985	A convincing piece of sound design research by Desmond of the SoundOnSound forums seems to prove that cello2 was the source of the main (and very distinctive) sounds of Running Up That Hill. Kate Bush has been quoted that the song was written around one sound from the Fairlight (find and insert source).	SOS	[ YouTube]
Kate Bush	The Dreaming	1982	Orchestal Stab: ORCH5. An earlier adopter of the CMI, Kate Bush also used the famouse ORCH5 sample in the title track of the album of the same name.	Academia.net	YouTube
Klaus Shulze	Dreams (album)	1986	Synthesizer [Roland JX-10P Super JX, Roland MKS-80/MPG-80 Super Jupiter, Roland MKS-30 Planet S, Korg DW-8000 Waveform], Sequencer [Korg SQD-1], Sampler [Akai S-612/MD-280], Drum Machine [Oberheim DMX], Effects [Korg DVP-1 Digital Voice Processor, Publison Infernal Machine 90, Disk Drive], DAW [Fairlight] – Klaus Schulze	Discogs	YouTube
Michael Jackson	Beat It	1984	Intro/bell: BEATGONG [Doc on the making of Take On Me.. Doesn't specify the sounds	YouTube	[ YouTube]
Nick Rhodes	n/a	1986	"Anyway, it seems that Nick is a Fairlight man, preferring it both to the Emulator, and the Synclavier: "The great thing about the Fairlight is the way it's laid out, not six different boxes like the Synclavier... I got mine halfway through Seven and the Ragged Tiger, and having worked with it for such a long time, I find it very quick to use.””	Reference	[ YouTube]
Stravinsky Firebird - David Vorhaus.	Firebird		Widely believed to be the source of the original Fairlight ORCH sound, sampled by..	[ Reference]	[ YouTube]
Tears For Fears	Shout	1984	Ah' vocal sound; ARR1 [Doc on the making of Take On Me.. Doesn't specify the sounds https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=wlTHJJX7QVU Reference]	[ YouTube]
The Art of Noise	Close (To The Edit)	1982	The Art of Noise’. (Dudley and Trevor Horn, her main collaborator, may well have known first-hand from Vorhaus whence the sample came; in any case, the final moments of their 1984 hit single ‘Close (to the Edit)’ wittily close the loop, mixing ORCH5 back into a congeries of sampled orchestral blasts from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.)	Reference	YouTube
Yes	Owner of a Lonely Heart	1983	[ Reference]	[ YouTube]
OMD	Live 1986		Played by Paul Humphreys. Runs the live set.	Music Technology	[ YouTube]
Herbie Hancock	Perfect Machine	1988	Synthesizer [Yamaha DX1, DX7, DX7IIFD, Kurzweil K-250, Fairlight Series II And Series III, Roland Super Jupiter, Rhodes Chroma, Oberheim Matrix 12, Yamaha TX 8/16], Sampler [Akai 900-S], Vocoder, Producer – Herbie Hancock. Electronic / Future Jazz / Electro	Discogs	YouTube
Herbie Hancock	Perfect Machine	1988	Synthesizer [Yamaha DX1, DX7, DX7IIFD, Kurzweil K-250, Fairlight Series II And Series III, Roland Super Jupiter, Rhodes Chroma, Oberheim Matrix 12, Yamaha TX 8/16], Sampler [Akai 900-S], Vocoder, Producer – Herbie Hancock Electronic / Future Jazz / Electro	Discogs	YouTube